Garfield: Look at these reviews. The new Beastboy would be happy about this.
Kimberly: Hey Gar.
Garfield: Hey Kim. I'm surprised you're here. Things not going well in Ranger-Verse?
Kimberly: Not really. Mind if I hang with you and look over this next chapter?
Garfield: I'd be insulted if you didn't. You guys enjoy the first official chapter of Silent Shout: Echoes of a Changeling's Heart
Silent Shout: Echoes of a Changeling's Heart
Chapter One: Three Years Later
It was the screams that alerted him.
He had finally captured the elusive rest that haunted him time and again due to countless reasons, and when he finally caught it, it escaped his grasp once again. Annoyed, he stood up from the spot beneath Steel Ridge City's main bridge and cracked his neck, and noticed a giant robot in the city.
The robot was bulky, platinum gold in color, and held bright red eyes, and it was in the middle of destroying the city.
The figure was that of an eighteen-year-old teen with green skin.
The teen was shirtless, revealing his scarred but fairly muscular chest, his forest green hair that was long enough to nearly cover his eyes, along with a long ponytail that fell to the curve of his back and green wild-looking sideburns.
Along with his long black cloak hooded cloak, the teen wore worn down black pants with tatters in the edge of his pants and a rope to hold them around his waist and hand wraps on his hands and feet.
Despite looking like a wild and uncaged animal ready to strike, he observed the chaos with a calm, almost detached demeanor
"It's a terrible thing, isn't it?" A voice said to his right.
The teen turned his head to see a homeless man looking at him. He merely gripped his tattered and dirty cloak and replied, "For you maybe, but this seems to a perfect test for me."
"A test? A test for what?" The man questioned.
He looked back out at the robot tearing through the city before a smirk appeared on his face. "A test to see where my power stacks up."
With those words, he ran forward in the direction of the city before he jumped into the air and morphed into an eagle, and soared in the heart of Steel Ridge City.
The robot twisted its body and cleaved through a tower with its right arm, and without any hesitation, he morphed his wings to make them bigger while morphing them steel before he flew towards the robot and sliced through its extended arm.
As the arm fell to the ground, he morphed back into his human shape and landed with a brief stumble before he turned around and saw the robot's burning red eyes gazing at him. Nano-machines quickly exploded from the missing arm socket and connected back to the arm before it forced the arm back onto the robot's body before it turned to look at him with fury in its eyes.
While he wasn't surprised at making it mad, he was surprised that the machine began to speak. "You dare lay your filthy hands on me mortal?!" The robot yelled. "Don't you understand who I am?! I am Ragnarök! The ending to this planet!"
He merely observed the machine with a tilt of his head. "Your voice sounds so small compared to your body," he noted.
"You dare?!" Ragnarök yelled as he launched his other hand towards him.
He smirked and morphed into a dozen fireflies before the hand could touch him. The group of fireflies suddenly launched themselves toward Ragnarök.
With flames sprouting around them, the fireflies burned into the machine's body, causing the machine to step back with each impact before they all came out of his back and formed back into his human shape.
Without warning, Ragnarök's head twisted around, and with a shout, two beams of energy shot from its eyes towards him. He morphed back into fireflies and flew around the beams before morphing back to his form, and with a yell, his right foot morphed into the foot of a T-Rex and kicked the head, sending it crashing into the building to its left.
He then morphed into a sparrow and shot himself towards the ground, then morphed back into his human form, only to morph his leg into a T-Rex tail and swept it against the robot's feet, sending it skidding down the building before it crashed to the ground.
"Let's try something new…" he said as he reached out; his arm grew until it morphed into the head of a T-rex. "It worked. This is going to be fun," he said as the T-Rex gripped the leg of Ragnarök with its large jaw, and with a yell, he swung his body and tossed the robot high into the air.
His arm morphed back, but he felt a brief burst of pain, which caused him to grip it with a wince.
It worked, but damn, did it hurt.
He shrugged off the pain before morphing into a falcon and flew in the direction where he threw his opponent.
After five minutes, he found Ragnarök on a large island in the middle of the sea, and instead of landing, He made his wings larger and longer before morphing the body back to his human form, keeping the wings attached to his back.
"You want to keep this going?" He asked.
Ragnarök rose to its feet and said, "I will kill you!"
He flew down to the ground on the island, then replied, "You, my friend, came to that city at the right time. I was looking forward to testing out a new transformation…" His emerald green irises shrank as he hunched down on the ground, growling as two nubs began to grow beside his neck.
Seeing this, Ragnarök shouted, "I won't let you!" and lifted his right foot and stomped down on the figure, but it was too late.
Ragnarök's foot lifted off the ground as the previously small figure began to grow in size.
Ragnarök crashed to the ground and watched as a black-colored muscular dog stood before him, its mouth glowing red. The eyes of the dog an emerald green. With a roar, an additional set of heads exploded from the right and left sides of the head, revealing a three-headed dog.
The three heads roared, causing the island beneath the machine to rumble before it charged toward Ragnarök, who immediately began to fire bolts of red energy at the oncoming beast. The beams of energy collided with the beast, but none of them slowed the best down.
Ragnarök scowled and rushed forward just as the beast jumped, and with its right arm, it blocked the bite of the central head from chomping into its head but was unable to stop the right head from biting down on its right shoulder. He saw the left head open its mouth, where he saw flickers of electricity.
Ragnarök's eyes widened as the beast's left head roared, causing a shockwave of slam into its head, which caused its entire body to fly backward while having its arm and shoulder torn off of it.
Ragnarök crashed to the ground and attempted to rise, but the beast's front legs slammed into his chest. It tried to punch the beast's central head, but the right head caught his arm and ripped it from its sockets while the main head leaned down and bite down on the machine's head, and with a mighty tug, the head was brutally ripped off Ragnarök's body, causing the red eyes of the machine to become a dull grey.
The beast whipped its head down, which caused the machine's head to bounce off the ground before it landed again and rolled into the ocean while it let out a roar before it began to shrink down back to a human shape.
The moment he was human again, he fell to one knee and panted, his green hair matted down to his face due to the massive amount of sweat. "Damn…Not a challenge," he muttered in annoyance as he stood up.
"You're looking for a challenge?" A voice said from behind him. He turned his head only to find himself looking at that same homeless old man before.
"It's you..." he said.
"I think it's I discard this foolish outfit," the homeless man said before he pulled up his sleeve to reveal a watch. With a press of a button, the homeless man was gone, showing a new man in his place.
The man had short white hair, a white goatee, and he wore a black eye patch that covered his right eye, a black suit with a black button-down shirt but a bright orange tie.
"What the hell..." he muttered in shock.
"I ask again," The man began, his voice lower and smoother than before. "Are you looking for a challenge?"
"I am...Who exactly is asking?" He questioned.
The man chuckled and said, "I am." The man took a step forward the dead machine as he said, "I've been watching you for some time now, and I must say, you're very skilled. And those skills, I require."
He narrowed his eyes at the man turned around to face him fully. "I'm a hero first and foremost. If you're looking for a Merc, Try Rogue Village."
"But that is the thing. I am looking for a Hero," The man replied. "As I mentioned, I've been watching you. You go from city to city, stopping threats, saving lives, and then leaving again without any thanks or fanfare in your honor. You remind of the Rōnin of old."
"Rōnin?" He asked.
"They were prevalent in the Feudal Era of Japan," The man explained. "They were essential a samurai that became master-less upon the death of his master, or after the loss of his master's favor or privilege. A Wanderer."
"Are you looking to become my master?" He asked with a wry smirk. "Because I'm not looking for one of those either. All I want is a villain that can push me to my limits."
"And I have come to give you that, dear Wanderer…I am the Mayor of Jump City, and I have traveled far and wide to find someone strong enough to help me combat a group of individuals that have been destroying my city," The man said.
"First time I've ever been sought out. Well, who are they?" He asked.
"They're known as the Teen Titans," The man replied.
"I see…" He replied before he sat down on the dead robot's chest and asked, "I'll hear you out but first, what's your name?"
"My name is Wilson Wintergreen," Wilson said.
"Wintergreen? What a weird last name," he said. "Well, I don't have a name. I threw it away a long time ago. You can call me Wanderer. Now, tell me more about the Teen Titans."
Rain: And that is the end of the first chapter…Um Gar, Kim, what are you two doing?
Garfield: *pulls lips away from Kim's* Um…Sparring
Kimberly: Y-yeah, what he said.
Rain: Right…Now I see why Ron-pool went on a vacation. I thought he shut the Fanfic universal door…
Garfield: He did. Something opened it up.
Rain: Gar, go back to the Venom-Verse. I'll update you soon. Kim, back to the Ranger-Verse. *sighs* now I see why Ron-Pool went on vacation. Anyways! That is the end of this chapter. This chapter has shown off some of the things Wanderer can do but I will go into how he can do it and the full extent of his abilities later. So until the next chapter…
Wanderer: Goodbye.